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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1900
Page
3
Torn, garbled report references bankruptcy rules on exemptions, Steel Company pricing, and freight or industrial data. It mentions a judge in a town, a telegraph system, shipbuilding orders, and a variety of economic and political items with scattered names and places, all in a fragmented historical newspaper style.
Thirteen people were killed and over thirty injured in a rear end crash between an excursion train from Bethlehem and a milk train near Hatfield Pennsylvania on the Bethlehem branch of the Philadelphia and Reading line. The Bethlehem Allentown bound excursion carried residents to Atlantic City. The wreck left carriages crushed and the loco surrounded by debris with several fatalities in the first two coaches.
The Costa Rican minister announces that his government and Nicaragua are preparing to negotiate with the United States for instruction and control of the isthmian canal by the U S government.
Jes Sheldon in England impressed thousands at a Christian convention in London. The Rev Charles M Sheldon refused interviews and declined to discuss his books, hinting he may analyze his literary work later. He plans to return to the United States and focus on fiction promoting Christianity.
North of Nashville Illinois farmer Andrew Schlake fought mosquitos all night after becoming lost in the Okaw River swamps. His face and body were covered with bites and his features distorted from swelling. Friends escorted him home. his condition was reported serious.
Scotland reports rising cigarette use among Edinburgh schoolboys. The Edin burgh school board issues a strong circular to parents and guardians urging cooperation to curb the harmful habit. Across the country boys smoke, obtaining cigarettes cheaply, with many evils catalogued by officials.
The sons of Thomas Lewler, the Benedicta limberman, keep a tame deer at their home. The animal was captured in the orchard near the house, according to the Bangor News.
A fragment from a Norwich New York letter dated February 17, 1900 claims a dye product named Putnam Face less Dyes works fast by sunlight washing and rubbing. The note mentions Emeline and a supposed cure for consumption once saved a life three years earlier and references Meck ley backing up the Chinese due to Canton Ohio connections.
The fragment mentions Hall's Catarth Cure with internal use and a price note. It includes stray dialogue about a candidate, cheers, blue ink product mentions, and a nonsensical line about floating a golded umbrella, indicating damaged or garbled OCR text from a historical page.
Miss Frederick of Troy Ohio writes of yellow muddy complexion fatigue and kidney issues linked to menses with three months absent. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with renewed health after treatment and urges others to seek help. Mrs Mary Barshinger of Winder also praises the remedy after long illness and back pain.
Private secretary asked where the bishop found time for himself. He replied he has plenty of time in the railroad car, a remark cited by the September Ladies' Home Journal.
A 19th century note describes Russia considering a new calendar with thirteen months of twenty eight days each. The feature highlighted is stability. The piece also markets Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for indigestion and insomnia and discusses exercise for housewives emphasizing fresh air and light activity.
Rest for the Bowels. No matter what ails you headache to a cancer you will never get well until your bowels are put right. CASCARETS help nature cure you without a gripe or pain produce easy natural movements cost you 100 cents to start getting your health back. CASCARETS Candy Cathartic the genuine put up in metal boxes every tablet has C C C stamped on it beware of imitations.
A collage of naturalist notes on the Balti more oriole nesting behavior and materials, followed by miscellaneous ad copy and quips. It mentions a rare silk thread use, then random product pitches and travel fare notices from the Santa Fe Route and Burlington excursions, ending with light humor and fragmentary dialogue.
The Dewey homestead, birthplace of Admiral George Dewey born December 26, 1837, was kept in the Dewey family, then sold to Captain Edward Dewey and later moved by T. R. Gordon, Esq. to its present site where it remains a visitor shrine. A letter from T. Kt. G praises Peruna Medicine Co. for helping his wife’s chronic catarrh and sleep, inviting a free book.
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